As far as real world consequences you're right. And Him being gay is just a a hope so that this story gets better. But everyone is glued to this story because he lied to the nation and it's just plain weird. He is a public figure and he got caught now he's feeling the backlash. I don't anyone here thinks he a bad person. Just a fukking idiot who doesn't know how to talk to girls. Tell me you wouldn't clown him too
Clowning is different than what's going on right now. Manti's story has more coverage than Lance Armstrong's who lie is WAYYYYY bigger than Manti's is and that's if he's lying.
We operate on a forum so see the whole online shyt from a different perspective. We're savvy on the internet more than most folks and even then I've seen cats get fooled by some dude pretended he was a girl. Back on SOHH Kango would pretend to be a girl for MONTHS in The Ladies Room and have dudes doing all kinds of shyt, confessing love, sending dikk pics, offering to come visit and they didn't have a clue until he put them on blast in the forum. I'm willing to give dude the benefit of the doubt because I've seen cats get fooled before. His fake girl had leukemia, just that alone can account for all of the leeway he gave while they were talking.